Off-Topic Discussion Latest Topicshttps://forums.cncnz.com/forum/2-off-topic-discussion/Off-Topic Discussion Latest TopicsenVideo of the dayhttps://forums.cncnz.com/topic/9538-video-of-the-day/As we already have a 'Pic of the day' thread, its time for the:

The new series that premiers in January 2017 is called Star Trek: Discovery, with the USS Discovery, NCC-1031, being the ship of choice. Honestly, it looks like a Constitution tried to mate with a Klingon D7 and ended in this... whatever this is.

In related news, I can't view the official promos on the official Star Trek YouTube channel. 2016 and we still have geolocking, ****ing great.]]>20139Tue, 26 Jul 2016 21:07:30 +0000The Five Dysfunctions Of A Team (book)https://forums.cncnz.com/topic/20844-the-five-dysfunctions-of-a-team-book/
My tutor recommended this book. We found a PDF but I opted to put it on hold from the library and paid $3 to collect it. Totally worth it if you ask me, less wrist injury lol - screw reading from a PDF.

So anyway this book talks about a company called Decision Tech, and the problems they had with their executive team. I recommend that you all read this book and reach your own conclusions but in short, team members didn't talk openly about themselves so they couldn't figure out strengths/weaknesses and therefore couldn't run their company, because they weren't being truthful about themselves. One team member was a corporate psychopath who only cared about her own ego (despite the company's bad state) and she thought that she was great, and she always expected other people to fix the company's problems. When the psychopath was asked to describe her weakness, she just said "poor financial skills" (she worked in marketing) whereas all other executives were more open, like one guy who admitted that he doesn't care about feelings, he just wants to tell people things in clinical/scientific language without cushioning it with stupid phrases "oh I'm so sorry BUT [insert shitstorm]"

Find this book if you can, you can easily read it in one or two weeks. You barely have to put in effort to finish it. Anyway get it if it's at your library. I finished reading it a couple of days ago.

What's my Friday playlist, you might wonder. Back when I was with GameReplays, there would occasionally be someone in the staff forum posting music on Fridays. I gave it a shot several times with posting my own, usually pre-determined posts, and they were received rather warmly. So I'm bringing it back right here on CNCNZ.com, for everyone to see this time around.

What can you expect? Various genres, from regular rock and pop, going in both ways from there on occasion: heavy metal on one end and shameless Eurodance on the other. I keep my music choices varied, frankly, and as time went on, I've been discovering and enjoying various songs and artists. I like what sounds nice, or just that bad that it actually sounds good. I love music and music videos, and I'd like to share this with you guys. Perhaps the songs you hear here will get you ready for the evening, or prepare you for a lazy night at home?

So, we start with my most recent "discovery", the band Garbage and their first single "Vow", which was, believe it or not, popularized by word of mouth before making it big on TV. Gotta love Shirley Manson

Garbage - Vow [1995]

]]>20653Fri, 12 May 2017 07:27:55 +0000Blade Runner 2049https://forums.cncnz.com/topic/20650-blade-runner-2049/
We'll never forget the original which inspired Ghost in the Shell, The Matrix and Deus Ex.
We'll never forget the inspiring electronic music from Vangelis.
We'll never forget Westwood's game adaptation from the movie with Frank Klepacki's amazing remade music.

And now, the world premiere trailer is here:

Here's the previous first trailer:

Could this be better than the original, or even shall I say as most people are saying, this is better than the lackluster Ghost in the Shell?

Who will watch this?

]]>20650Mon, 08 May 2017 18:53:13 +0000Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedihttps://forums.cncnz.com/topic/20459-star-wars-episode-viii-the-last-jedi/
It's early to open this new discussion topic, but hey, Disney/Lucasarts have officially named the subtitle for Star Wars 8. A decent title though, but I'll bet the last Jedi standing is Rey when Luke will fall to the Empire. I wish it was called The Empire Re-Strikes Back.

First trailer is here:

The official poster:

]]>20459Mon, 23 Jan 2017 17:58:35 +0000Will Uncle Sam be doomed this month?https://forums.cncnz.com/topic/20812-will-uncle-sam-be-doomed-this-month/
Last month, both N. Korea and USA threatened each other to start a possible WWIII. Now with a week left until 9/11 (marking the 16th grim anniversary), Uncle Sam is struggling to get funding for Hurricane Harvey's victims, maintaining the government (and a new budget) to prevent shutdown, trying to develop Trump's wall, trying to get another replacement health-care act, trying to lower taxes from the wealthiest, and maintaining the so-called DACA (in which Trump wants to end). Now with N. Korea arming and testing a hydrogen bomb in an ICBM, the chances of WWIII is getting higher and ISIS is waiting to make their next move. The chances of doomsday and/or WWIII only depends on where the situation goes, and it's still slim.

Fire and Fury, Trump? Uncle Sam is already divided. One attack and one war could make Uncle Sam go bankrupt.

]]>20812Tue, 05 Sep 2017 06:07:43 +0000Pic of the Dayhttps://forums.cncnz.com/topic/3156-pic-of-the-day/so, I'll start. Post any cool pics you find and tell us about them.

An S-37A and an SU-35 taking off

]]>3156Mon, 16 May 2005 21:27:19 +0000My gift to you for still being alivehttps://forums.cncnz.com/topic/20789-my-gift-to-you-for-still-being-alive/
Hey guys, I know I haven't been all that active for the past years, so I decided to make it up to you with a shitty paint I drew up in 10 min. But above all, I want to say I appreciate you keeping C&C, my favorite game series, alive. Nothing else, you guys are the best <3

I was just curious which games were '2D' and '3D', or were all '2D' with the illusion of '3D', and Im not very expert on this, but it's every '2D' games with or without illusion of '3D' does it uses 'sprites'?

Well finally the answer to the Expendables cast is here, Marvel's version of the Expendables. The Avengers and Guardians will team up in this epic movie coming May 2018 and almost every great Marvel character is included except the Fantastic Four, X-Men and some other characters. And yes, there's a sequel to that too coming in 2019.

There was a leaked trailer earlier for this movie (will be updated until Disney/Marvel releases the official one -- and the same goes to the poster):

]]>20769Mon, 24 Jul 2017 18:25:18 +0000Mammoth tank ASSEMBLED!https://forums.cncnz.com/topic/20738-mammoth-tank-assembled/My son needed a new bedroom, because he will turn 8 soon and was still sleeping in a "Captain Sharky" pirate room.
He is a big fan of Command and Conquer 3 - Tiberium Wars (as am i). So we decided his next room would be built around the Command and Conquer theme.

After a lot of searching on ebay, aliexpress etc. I could not find any merchandise of these games. So i decided to 3d-print something for him. The Mammoth Tank seemed like an excellent choice.

]]>20738Fri, 07 Jul 2017 09:27:03 +0000Zee's Stop Motion Projectshttps://forums.cncnz.com/topic/20731-zees-stop-motion-projects/
Yep, I'm still making these videos! Here's my most recent one. Just a warning, it might be startlingly loud, seeing as how there's a cannon and all.

]]>20731Tue, 04 Jul 2017 22:25:59 +0000Could you can add My site To Community Sites Section?https://forums.cncnz.com/topic/20739-could-you-can-add-my-site-to-community-sites-section/
Hello Everyone of CNCNZ.com

I came from South Korea and often visits CNCNZ.com for news, information etc.

]]>20739Sat, 08 Jul 2017 08:15:51 +0000The Putin Interviews (Oliver Stone)https://forums.cncnz.com/topic/20710-the-putin-interviews-oliver-stone/
I watched 1/4 of this on Youtube before it was taken down due to copyright, then I discovered that TVNZ has the interviews available in their "on-demand" section. Although there wasn't much new for me to learn, it was worth watching most of the interviews. Putin laughs frequently and makes many jokes, this seems to be why the American media hated it so much: "too friendly". Of course just because the US media hates it, that doesn't mean Oliver Stone did a bad job. The Putin Interviews is an excellent project that will be cited throughout the rest of this century! People today use World War II as the yardstick for everything, and Hitler is usually the yardstick for authoritarianism ... 65 years on. In the 22nd century I predict that more precedents will be set, be they military or political. Future wars will be judged based upon precedents set in World War II and newer precedents set in the early 21st century. For example, what is or isn't an act of war, and how much proxy war can be executed by a nation, without consequences.

The third hour of interviews was mainly about Ukraine and the fourth hour was about the hacking allegations. In the third hour, Putin shows his situation room where he talks to his staff via video link. Somewhere in the first or second hour he is asked about what the United States really intends for Russia, and Putin says something like: "I will answer this question in great detail and in a candid manner ... after I have retired".

It is a slow moving documentary/interview but there is an appeal to it, not because of Russia's role in the world, but because you can see Putin in a normal situation. Usually if Putin is on TV he is telling the US to stop lecturing Russia on democracy or he is accusing the US of interfering in Syria. In Oliver Stone's interview you see the normal Putin where he talks about the career choices of his daughters, saying he is proud because they are in science and education - not politics or corporate business! I'm not sure if the TVNZ link works for people outside New Zealand. I have never used TVNZ on-demand until now so I know very little about it.

My dad always says that Putin is dodgy and "like a villain from a Bond film"

Really enjoyed the no-mans-land scene, glad I didn't watch any trailers to get that spoiled. Loved all the quick-time stuff... but oh boy the cgi fights are still horrendous!!! I just don't get it, DC, why is the CGI consistently so bad in your movies???

But to be fair, you could probably walk out of the cinema after no-mans-land and celebration... and not really miss that much more.

7/10

]]>20682Mon, 05 Jun 2017 10:17:43 +0000Logan (Wolverine 3) 2017https://forums.cncnz.com/topic/20304-logan-wolverine-3-2017/The "R" rated Wolverine movie that people want see. Its simply called "Logan". Follows the Old Man Logan story from the comics.....

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]]>15067Fri, 08 Apr 2011 03:11:15 +0000Songs that get stuck in your head for a long timehttps://forums.cncnz.com/topic/20573-songs-that-get-stuck-in-your-head-for-a-long-time/
So do you ever get songs stuck in your brain? You can't stop listening to them? Ever since seeing Logan earlier this month I can't stop listening to this one....

Just as well is a good song

]]>20573Fri, 24 Mar 2017 13:27:46 +0000Internet Connection Speedshttps://forums.cncnz.com/topic/19337-internet-connection-speeds/We haven't had a topic like this for while. So what is you're connection speed to the Internet? Go to http://www.speedtest.net/ and run the test, share the results.

My VDSL Connection:

]]>19337Thu, 21 May 2015 22:36:35 +0000https://forums.cncnz.com/topic/20646-cc-generals-is-happening-in-real-life/
In the modern world, great leaders resolve conflicts with words like

]]>20646Wed, 03 May 2017 01:51:50 +0000Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 (Spoilers)https://forums.cncnz.com/topic/20641-guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-2-spoilers/
Saw this on the weekend.

Loved the idea of the opening credits sequence. Loved it.

Didn't know Kurt Russel was in it, until I saw his name in the credits and in the first scene of the movie. He gets a free pass for any movie he's in, because of "Big trouble in little China". But I still barked out a laugh when I saw his name - groovy!

Loved the Yondo/Ego/Starlord story... well done.

But yet again bored and disappointed with the Nebula character. I'm a huge DW fan, so I love the actor, but the character is pathetic as a villain. I was *especially* disappointed that she made her great big monologue about her daddy issues... and immediately didn't exit the movie. Every other scene was unnecessary and did not add to the character.

And, bah, the fact that everyone had a reasonable happy ending with no unresolved villain hatching their revenge irritates me. The post credit scene doesn't count, it needed a character in the movie do to that. Again, Nebula's monologue should have been her final scene.

Where Avengers II was too heavy handed with it's world building, GOTGV2 was too light.

But when it all gets too much, I just think of baby Groot and smile. Adorable!

7/10 for me.

]]>20641Tue, 02 May 2017 03:31:46 +0000So there will be a Dune reboot after allhttps://forums.cncnz.com/topic/20625-so-there-will-be-a-dune-reboot-after-all/
In 1984, the first Dune movie was mediocre, and then comes the movie ministries in later years. In 2011, Paramount was going for this reboot, but it got canned out due to budget and licensing issues.

Now in 2017 after Arrival and Blade Runner projects, Denis Villeneuve is headlining this Dune reboot project by Legendary Pictures. It's going to be a challenge though.